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View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: High cloud, high humidity. Or something like that. In a remarkable turn of events, I actually headed out relatively early and started my run at 9:38 a.m. This is over two hours earlier than Monday’s run...
Ohmygod I’m still writing about AI on my political philosophy blogI wasn’t expecting to write a post like this so late into the AI bubble, which I wrote about in March, but after recent AI news stories I felt obligated to post this....
A day of mooching punctuated by an overdue visit from Roo to shoot the shit. Both our social batteries were low so it only lasted half an hour, but she brought brownies, which helped. Otherwise I seem to have got my reading bug back, or...
The Copernicus Browser can be used to browser through current and historical satellite imagery: think of it like the Google Maps “Satellite” layer, more up to date, but with less resolution.I zoom in to St. Peters Harbour, on Prince...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 183-187: The island of Mindanao is the most misunderstood part of the nation. Decades of on and off conflict...
Took a trip to Texel today, visited Ecomare, saw the baby seals and the lighthouse at the northern tip of the island. Shot photographed lots of seagulls that were flying along the ferry on the way to and from the island. 👉 View 6 more...
This is a fun experiment that started as a way to generate deterministic "usernames" for Nostr npub keys (see the last section). English is really hard to deal with even for simple syllables, so the result is not as good as I'd want it...
the sea was wet as wet could be, the sands were dry as dry. you could not see a cloud, because no cloud was in the sky: no birds were flying overhead — there were no birds to fly. — lewis carrol verbal, mental, literal, philosophical,...
Shrimp
Ninety percent of wildfires start within a half mile of a road. The Trump administration wants to build more of them.
Mark Thompson joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Peter Parker discreetly declining to be one of the everybody who was Kung Fu fighting in Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge.
Our Germany-dwelling Texas-bred friend Stuart Clayton alerted me to the existence of québecois faque, “eye dialect spelling of fait que,” which means “So, therefore, in that case.” Stu sez “Here’s a tie-up to France French ‘du coup’...
...uhm, what lines? Uhh, why... these: Ὁμήρου Ὀδύσσεια αʹ · 1–21 1 ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ 2 πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν· 3 πολλῶν δʼ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω, 4 πολλὰ δʼ ὅ γʼ ἐν...
A near-Herculean feat of transcription, if I do say so! Read it here.